Posts from September 2017
Tina Ullery
I was raised a Preacher’s kid growing up in church. My parents taught me to love Christ and to please Him. I married Raymond Ullery in 1998 and we have been serving the Lord together ever since. I have a 6 month old son in God’s custody since 1998 and twin boys born in 2002. My husband is currently pastor of Northgate Baptist Church in Norman, Oklahoma, and we have served the Lord there since 2013. I am also a…
Jane Coley
My name is Jane, I trusted the Lord as my Saviour when I was 12 and ½ years old. I have been married to my one and only sweetheart, best-friend, and lover since August 14, 1978. We are now “empty nesters” with 5 adult children, 2 grandsons, and 2 sons-in-laws. We have been living in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa since March 24, 1998 doing mission’s work. I teach women in our Bible Institute, and, as the Lord leads, establishing the Titus…
Ben Logue
Ben Logue and his wife, Becca, are alumni of Heartland Baptist Bible College and members of Southwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ben is currently Dean of Men at HBBC and are facing a faith-testing trial in their life—two of their children are battling a life-threatening genetic disease. Follow their story on their blog!
A Journey of Miracles
A Journey of Miracles – My Grandson’s story I had arrived from Kenya on July 22, 2011 to be with our daughter and her family as they waited for the birth of their second son. We had spent a few months wondering if there really was a need for me to make the long trip. After all, our regular furlough time was schedule for later in the year and Stephanie was progressing well with this pregnancy, and there had been no…
A Mother’s Journey ~ a poem
After the death of our firstborn son in 1998, I wrote this poem about the journey a women goes through and how everyone’s ‘happy ending’ is different as we all belong to God and not ourselves! A Mother’s Journey A mother’s journey begins … Long before her first child is born, & Long before her wedding day Back when she herself was born She is preparing even as a child For that blessed role she will undertake She is learning…
Growing in Grief
The day our daughter passed away… my breaking heart made this silent request, “Please… My Dear Lord God… please, …bury me with my child! It will be more merciful to be buried with her, than trying to go through this life without her.” But a soft reply echoed back, “I will be with you.” I began to think of the happiness my daughter would never know… falling in love, and all the whimsical delights that come with a true first love… her wedding day,…
…And then came grief … my daughter died
I collapse to the floor and mourn. Grief has come to forever intrude on my life. The hours, days, months, and years pass and yet I do not perceive them, I am stuck in that dreadful moment when I lost you. Grief, the visitor who never leaves, inserts itself into every aspect of my life. It shadows me like an impending storm…I feel it. I hear it. I see it and it overtakes me. It dulls every happy moment. I am ravished…
My Darkest Day
It was December…and the worst news of my life shattered me forever…Kimberly was dead! My beautiful 28 year old daughter had died of the flu. She had gone to see a doctor on December 13th and died on December 17th, 2014, alone in her apartment. Kimberly’s dad and I both had spoken with the police officers who had found her. They were compassionate and gave us the information we were wanting. Bill then called our travel agent and arranged for us…
Miscarriage~The Grief of Emptiness
My sweetheart and I were married on August 14, 1978, and we desired to have children as soon as the Lord would give them to us. By November 8th, I was calling my gynecologist for information on a pregnancy test. That was back in the day before you could purchase a self-test kit from your local drug store. Never having had a pregnancy test before, the instructions given to me were to provide them with a sample of my morning…
The Logue Family story
“God seemed to pick the disciples up, carry them through, and set them down on the other side of the storm.” This was the basic message Pastor Dan Preston preached from John 6:16-21 on Thursday morning, April 1, 2010. As I sat there in the chapel service that morning, God seemed to use the message to tell me clearly that my wife and I were about to embark on a difficult journey with our son, Philip, but that through it all…